Focus is Everything — How to Effectively Navigate the AI Landscape
Aaron Vontell (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic; Founder & former CEO, Regression Games)
Abstract
In this talk, Aaron will walk through his journey building in the AI space, detailing his learnings from Instabase, his own AI startup Regression Games, and now his experience at Anthropic. This talk will focus on the importance of focusing on specific problems and navigating frequently-changing technological landscapes, and how to apply cutting-edge research in record time.
Bio
Aaron Vontell is a software engineer and entrepreneur, currently serving as a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Previously, he was the Founder and CEO of Regression Games, an AI gaming startup backed by NEA and a16z. He holds a degree from MIT, including a master’s in AI, where he contributed to MIT’s Battlecode AI competition.
The Columbia Engineering AI Entrepreneurship Series is a bi-weekly speaker series that brings students and faculty at Columbia together with founders, VCs, technologists, and business leaders to learn about the process of transitioning lessons from research and the classroom into products and value.
This event is organized by Columbia's Data, Agents, and Processes Lab (DAPLab). For more information about the series, see https://daplab.cs.columbia.edu/entrepreneurship.
